The food policy of Soviet Russia in 1917-1921 was, without question, very crude, imperfect, and gave rise to many abuses. There were a series of errors in its implementation. But it was the only possible policy under those conditions, taken as a whole. And it fulfilled its historical task: it saved the dictatorship of the proletariat in a ruined and backward country. It is an indisputable fact that it gradually improved. In the first year of our full power (1. VIII. 1918 - 1. VIII. 1919) the state collected 110 million poods of grain; in the 2nd — 220; in the 3rd — more than 285. Now, already having practical experience, we set ourselves the task of collecting, and we calculate on collecting, 400 million poods (the amount of the food tax = 240 million poods). Only by being the actual proprietor of a sufficient food fund is the workers' state able to stand firmly in economic terms on its own feet, to ensure at least slow but steady restoration of large-scale industry, to create a proper financial system.